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Approximately one year ago I saw the number of downloads tick over a hundred thousand, today my total downloads from the TechNet Script Gallery has reached 250,000. To celebrate this milestone I have uploaded all of the scripts I have stored in the TechNet Script Gallery also to GitHub to simplify the updating and collaboration with others.

My personal preferred method of installing and sharing scripts is by using the PowerShell Gallery, which is available at PowerShellGallery.com or by using the PowerShellGet cmdlets, for example the following two lines of code can find the scripts and modules I have currently posted:

As I personally mostly see benefit in sharing of modules and not so much single scripts and function I am working on converting some of the scripts I have written into modules and once they are finalized I will upload those to the PowerShell Gallery as well. So my question to the community is as follows, which improvements are you most interested in or what would you like to see next?

Feel free to use the comment section underneath this post to share your ideas or feedback. That is it for now, until the next milestone!

Earlier today the counter on my TechNet community profile tipped over from 149,999 to 150,000. A major milestone for me personally as I never expected when I uploaded my first script, Get-FileVersion: Script to check file properties, that I would get this level of feedback. After uploading my first few scripts I remember my excitement when I received my first email from TechNet with a question to one of the scripts. Nowadays I occasionally struggle to keep up with the requests and questions that the scripts generate, and I love the interaction and feedback I have received.

That is also the reason for this post, a thank you to everyone using, breaking and improving my scripts. I have learned a lot and I have revisited some of my ideas on your experiences. It has been very rewarding keeping up with all the developments, suggestions and questions.

I have created a new section on my blog to be able to keep track of the scripts I have released it is available in the top section of this site, Scripts. It contains all the direct links to my script pages and the relevant Q and A sections in the TechNet Script Gallery.

In conclusion I would like to thank everyone from participating in discussions that prompted me to write, re-write and re-re-write my scripts for countless iterations and I hope to hear more from everyone in the future!